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War amid the Plaaaeft Ur auras | 

At the time of the Revolutionary war Uranus 1 
was in Gemini and Mars passed him in the same j 
sign. In 1812 Neptune was in Sagittarius — oppo- 
site Gemini and Mars made a conjunction with him. 
It the time of the Civil war Uranus was in Gemini 
and Mars made several conjunctions and opposi- 
tions with him. In 1898 Neptune was in Gemini 
and Mars passed him during the fall months, 
Uranus and Saturn were both in opposition to 
Gemini in transit of the sign Sagittarius, the sign 
ruling Spain, and Mars made a conjunction of both 
these planets at the beginning of the year. In 
1914 Saturn was transiting the sign ruling the 
United States. Fortunately Saturn passed out and 
Jupiter passed in before we got into the World war. 
From the spring of 1942 until the spring of 1949 
Uranus will be transiting Gemini. From the spring 
of 1942 until the summer of 1944 Saturn will be 
with him and the fiery Mars will make numerous 
conjunctions and oppositions of these two malig- 
nant influences on the destinies of our country. In 
what manner the enemy shall come and whether 
from within or without, I leave for students of 
Astrology to figure out. 

The transit of this strange planet a few years 
back of the sign Capricorn coincided with the up- 
heaval in Mexico. This was followed, as the plan- 
et progressed thru Aquarius by the revolution in 
Russia the absolute annihilation of bureaucracy and 
total destruction of the royal family. It is the na- 
ture of Uranus to thoroughly clear the ground and 
build anew. It is now Portugal's turn, for Uranus 4 
is well along in the sign Pisces, having rule over that ! 
country. Watch Portugal. J 



C. W. JAMIESON, 
Publisher Jamieson's Planet Reader, 
215 S. Sheridan Road, Waukegan, 111. 



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Copyright 1922 
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MATURE 



Nature, considered rationally, that is to say, submit- 
ted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of 
phenomena; a harmony blending together all created 
things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one 
great whole animated by the breath of life. The most 
important results of a rational inquiry into nature is, 
therefore to establish the unity and harmony of this stu- 
pendous mass of force and matter, to determine with 
impartial justice what is due to the discoveries of the 
past and to those of the present, and to analyze the in- 
dividual parts of natural phenomena, without succumb- 
ing beneath the weight of the whole. Thus, and thus 
alone, it is permitted to man, while mindful of the high 
destiny of his race, to comprehend nature, to lift the veil 
that shrouds her phenomena, and, as it were submit the 
results to the test of reason and intellect. 

—Humboldt. 



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By the late W. S. Green, in the Adept. 



What art thou, man, amidst the wreck of spheres? 

Infinitesimal, as a speck of dust, 
Art thou, who passeth with the fleeting years 

To other realms according to thy trust? 

Know this : That myriad other worlds have passed 
Ere this formed from out the cosmic rings ; 

Had their brief days— but measured by eons vast 
For each--when forms return to primal things. 

Know this : Precession of the equinox 

Mark all the varying cycles of the world 

Pisces was ruler when, amidst the rocks 
The protoplasm sentinent life unfurled. 

Then came the formal, the Aquarian age, 

When sympathy and higher form appears. 

The warring elements now cease to rage, 
For art and science mark Aquarian years. 

Then came the Goat, the Archer, Scorpion— all 

The signs in turn, till the eon passed, 
And showed the nature of the rise and fall 

Of life— each cycle higher than the last. 

Again the Pisces age has long been here 

And ruled a thoughtless race in this fair clime— 

A drifting herd of bipeds, ruled by fear- 
Material for the architect of time. 

But now Aquarius comes once more to reign, 
And brotherhood, fraternity and peace 

This builder of the temple shall maintain, 
And science, art, philosophy increase. 

The nights of Pisces now have passed ; 

Dawn breaks across the eternal hills of time ; 
The age of Wisdom, Justice comes at last, 

When Art and Peace shall make the world sublime. 

A thousand years shall come and pass away, 

With Wisdom's light increasing from shore to shore, 

Ere beams high noon on this Aquarian day. 
And then— the curtain falls— we see no more. 



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During the summer of 1915 I predicted from a study 
of the law of cycles, that black rust would hit the wheat 
crop. I got the "laff" from certain quarters, but a lit- 
tle later could not repress a snicker myself. If it hadn't 
resembled a tragedy for many I would have haw-hawed 
right out. In less than a week the wheat crop of the 
Dakotas was all but obliterated. 

It is a deep and fascinating study and I never claimed 
more than a "look in" on the flowery field of the infinite. 

At that my predictions proved true about eight times 
out of ten, proving they were based on something more 
tangible than a dream. 

Cotton and oil are governed by a different and much 
longer vibration than grain. At the beginning of . the 
year 1922 I forecasted that both cotton and oil would be 
on the upgrade in May and October. 

It must not be supposed this advance information will 
enable anyone and everyone to speculate successfully. 
The mere statement that cotton, oil or corn would 
likely be strong or weak at a certain period would mean 
nothing without specialized knowledge. Without such 
knowledge the tendency would be to rely on the forecaster 
to guarantee every move to be successful — to make them 
rich — it can't be done. The following extracts from let- 
ters by a few who experimented with this method are 
published merely to show that Astrology can be made of 
value in any department of life's activities and future 
predictions will be made in this magazine solely for the 
purpose of demonstrating my contention of planetary 
influence— not to invite the man in the street to a tussle 
with the bulls and bears. I know practically nothing of 
any Board of Trade or Exchange or their methods — 

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A PASSING CLOUD 

History records the fact that all countries, all nations 
and all men--if they live long enough, experience periods 
of prosperity and the reverse. History also records the 
fact that whenever periods adversely affecting the affairs 
of man appear, investigation is begun by the appointment 
of commissions etc. to promulgate new theories as to the 
propable cause; man, due to prejudice and affected en- 
lightenment and learning refusing to observe, and declar- 
ing non-existent if he does observe, workings of nature 
outside of earth or air — the electric, magnetic law of life. 

Therefore I declare, as others have declared, the real 
cause to be planetary translation. Whether it affects 
crops, business or finance, history shows it is invariably 
followed in due time by prosperity. My pointing out 
these unfavorable periods as they affect humanity is not 
to prove everything wound up for disaster, but the re- 
verse — an unfavorable transit is but a passing cloud — a 
period of self denial, readjustment, inventory. For it is 
produced by the sower and reaper — god of the harvest — 
the planet Saturn. 

It is a well known fact to students of Astrology that 
when Saturn vibrates signs of the Zodiac which many 
years of observation show certain countries to be in har- 
mony with, or related to, there is a business depression 
which accompanies crop failures and many unfavorable 
events, strikes etc. 

Aries, symbolically represented by the RAM — right 
ascension of the meridian, first sign of the Zodiac, is a 



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point on the earth's surface where the Sun crosses the 
equator when going north — hence this point is latitude 
— longitude — and produces the Spring or Vernal Eqi- 
nox, when all life in the northern hemisphere springs in- 
to expression. This is repeated in the southern hemi- 
sphere when about Sept. 24 the Sun again reaches the 
equator and starts south thus giving a grand demonstra- 
tion of the fact that nature's manifestations are double. 

The following are the countries said to be ruled by the 
sign Aries: England, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Pales- 
tine, Syria, Japan. 

Years of observation of the effect of a transit of Sat- 
urn thru the four cardinal signs — Aries, Cancer, Libra 
and Capricorn and consequent action on the minds of 
people of the countries mentioned, but also the entire 
world, is too evident to be sneered into oblivion. 

In making its circuit of the twelve zodiacal signs the 
planet Saturn requires thirty years, or to be more exact, 
twenty-nine and one-half years. 

As further evidence of the depressing effect of Saturn 
on different parts of the world at the same time it affects 
the countries being in harmony therewith, I mention 
Brazil, some provinces of which during the year 1878 ex- 
perienced utter crop failures. Towns were depopulated 
and many rivers dried up to the bottom. 

During the summer of 1878 yellow fever nearly depop- 
ulated some of our southern cities. Twenty thousand 
victims fell before the plague. 

SATURN IN ARIES.— In our inquiry it is not necessary 
to go further back than a transit and a half of the 
planet Saturn, or forty-five years from 1923 when Saturn 
occupied the sign Aries. This brings us to 1878. In En- 
gland persistent rains and an almost sunless summer re- 



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SATURN IN AIRES 

duced many farmers to a state of destitution. But little 
of the small amount of grain produced was harvested due 
to continued wet weather which caused an epidemic of 
liver rot among sheep. Students will note the relation of 
wool, sheep, etc. and the symbol for Aries. The winter of 
1878 was long rememberd in England as one of great bus- 
iness depression and consequent hardship. The next tran- 
sit of the sign Aries by Saturn occurred 30 years later dur- 
ing 1908. Who fails to recall the financial and industrial 
stagnation of 1907-08 in the United States? 



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SATURN IN CANCER 

We will now take 1886, seven and one half years after 
Saturn leaves Aries and enters the sign Cancer This 
transit of Saturn caused a series of strikes in all parts of 
the United States, at which time also occurred the Hay- 
market massacre in Chicago. These evils were followed 
•by a series of bad crops, added to which was a specula- 
tive mania in which large amounts of capital were in- 
vested in visionary enterprises. Stagnation ensued in 
business, stocks declined in value, manufactories were 
closed and the army of unemployed grew tremendously. 

This year of 1886 was made memorable by the great 
earthquake at Charleston, S. C, causing great destruction. 



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SATURN IN LIBRA 

We win now take seven and a half years later, 1893 
when Saturn entered Libra, opposite the sign ruling Eng- 
land, in which year in England occurred the most de- 
structive drought of which history makes record, follow- 
ed by a disastrous decline in grain prices in 1894 and a ten 
weeks frost at the beginning of 1895. In the winter of 
1893 the idle in the United kingdom numbered millions. 

During the summer of 1893 occurred the great strike 
of the American Railway union against the Pullman Car 
company. This was the Worlds Fair year which had not 
yet closed when the people of the U. S. faced a severe in- 



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dustrial and financial depression. In the fall of 1894 with 
Saturn still in Libra occurred destructive fires in the for- 
ests of northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, in 
which it was estimated 1,500 lives were lost. 

It was in July, 1894, with Saturn still in Libra that ten 
thousand workmen in the great textile manufactories in 
New Bedford, Mass., struck against a wage cut and over 
twenty thousand operatives of Fall River were locked 
out, also a gigantic strike of tailors in New York City and 
the great street car strike in Brooklyn, involving over 
20,000 men at the beginning of 1895, were among a few 
of the troubles traceable to the transit of Saturn thru 
Libra. This was the period also of the Coxey army. 

The planet Neptune entered Taurus, the sign ruling 
Ireland, in 1875 and much of the time since the Irish peo- 
ple have been in a state of unrest. Neptune is now tran- 
siting the sign Leo, in square to Taurus. Saturn passed 
Neptune during 1917-18 and the planet of revolution, 
Uranus, was making an opposition at that time and re- 
kindled the spirit of revolt. The transit of Jupiter in an- 
angle relating to Ireland during 1923 will have a tendency 
to smooth out some of Ireland's troubles. It is a favor- 
able time to work for peace and stability and be prepared 
to ride the unfavorable wave of 1924-25. 

With Saturn transiting the sign Gemini, the Twins— 
the sign ruling the United States when the World war be- 
gan in 1914, it did not appear we could keep out of it. 
The mere fact of Saturn's presence there did not nec- 
essarily mean war, but it indicated trouble. When the 
U. S. finally declared war, Saturn had moved away from 
the sign ruling this country and into a position where it 
became an affliction to the House of Hohenzollern. The 
great benific — Jupiter then arrived at our ruling sign, 
while the planet of war — Mars flamed from our meridian. 
The god of war meant military success and Jupiter fur- 
nished the finances. But an aspect of Mars and Jupiter 
produces prodigality. 



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SATURN AND JUPITER IN LIBRA 
We now come to 1922-23 when we again find Saturn in 
Libra where he will remain until May 28, 1924. He en- 
tered the sign Libra in the fall of 1921 and we have had 
and will continue to have evidence of his depressing pow- 
er thruout the world. The presence of Jupiter also in 
this sign nearly all of 1922 has done much to alleviate 
these untoward conditions, for Jupiter is an expansive in- 
fluence and the sign Libra has much influence on building 
operations — great activity has been the result. This posi- 
tion of Jupiter has resulted in producing marvelous crops 
during 1922 of all products of bush and tree. Fruits and 



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nuts that grow wild have produced wonderfully. I did 
not place Jupiter there to square with the facts. Those 
in doubt as to the favorable influence of Jupiter on these 
crops should refer to 1910 when Jupiter made a transit of 
Libra. 

Now watch 1923 after Jupiter has passed on and left 
Saturn alone in the balance and inclines all things related 
to that sign to pause and rest; hence Adventism has its 
followers. Nothing spiritual about the vibrations of Sat- 
urn, but he rules Saturday and the 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd 
hour of that day. Periods of scarcity can traced to this 
Saturn influence every time. 

Corn and fruit will be largely a failure in 1923. Vinous 
crops will thrive under the Jupiter influence and at cer- 
tain times during the year oil stocks will have a boom. 
Many new oil wells will prove great producers. The to- 
bacco interests will probably cut a mellon. 



It has been shown the relation existing between these 
sensitive points and the disturbing effect of the transits 
of Saturn over the same, and proven the case by their 
repetition producing similar results. 

I apprehend it is the ultimate of man to rule his stars 
and the nearer his approach to so doing will be by the 
use of mind. But how many, comparatively, in all the past 
which we have any record, had any inclination to use their 
minds. Let George, or the preacher do it — or what was 
good enough for my dad is good enough for me, has been 
the avenue of escape for the mentally lazy. The multi- 
tude prefer to follow the "calf that wabbled in his walk." 
Hence when a depressing wave strikes the earth the com- 
mon herd flock together — all howl in the same key, and 
that key harmonizes with the force that produces it. 
Saturn produces fear — misery loves company and it is 
easier to count the flock when they are all together. 



I I COMMEMT ! 



I have nothing in common with those astrologers who 
show their teeth and growl at the advance of others in 
this study. The subject is too vast to be corraled by a 
few fortune-telling crooks. Real students of astrology 
cannot increase too fast to reveal the true and overcome 
the false propaganda of the astronomer and others men- 
tally biased who fail to observe grand truths of nature. 
The subject had better be left alone by those lacking the 
moral stamina of Galileo, for the same spirit of derision 
and scorn that caused him to suffer still manifests. 

The purpose of this magazine is an endeavor to place 
the subject before the people in its true light and in a 
manner that those unhampered by bigotry or the mental 
bias of the astronomer may investigate its claims. Its 
friends are all in the ranks of those who have studied it; 
its enemies are all in the ranks of those who have not — 
puny souls, still struggling along the rocky road of man's 
evolution — ever endeavoring to fetter the mind's of men 
by declaring — we have all the truth, seek it in our way 
or not at all. 

If you are interested in astrology and desire to assist in 
placing it on the high plane where it rightfully belongs, 
you are invited to contribute to the columns of this mag- 
azine. There is being made a determined effort to bury 
this divine science. Odium has become attached to it by 
fortune tellers who never got farther in the study than 
the fortune telling phase — a mere smattering of the won- 
derful field of real knowledge for those who approach 
the subject with inquiring, open mind. 



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I am not interested in that phase of Astrology which 
has to do with personal horoscopes. The science has 
many branches and there are a number of capable people 
interested in that phase of the subject. The domain of 
my endeavors lie more in the direction of planetary 
movements affecting the affairs of people and nations as 
a whole and the refutation of charlatanism directed at 
all who study the deeper truths of astronomy — therefore 
man. The fond hope of those enamored of dogma that 
the subject has been exploded, I propose to show is a 
false hope. The comparative silence of this divine sci- 
ence is no more proof that it is dead than is the proof 
that the sun has quit shining because it is temporarily 
obscured by a passing cloud. 

The fear that truth may not come in pleasant guise 
has deterred many a mind from honest inquiry into the 
whys and wherefores of things. To obviate this many 
set about, ill-advisedly or otherwise, to besmirch the ob- 
ject of their fear and doubt; but surely as the day fol- 
lows the night must such eventually pay the penalty of 
their ignorance. — Hazelrigg. 

Nearly all text books on Astrology give to Saturn the 
attributes of the greater evil. Out of this apparent evil 
good always comes. The intense vibrations of this mag- 
net tends to produce dissatisfaction, and what kind of a 
world would this be if every one were satisfied? Dissat- 
isfaction makes for progress, and the planet Saturn be- 
ing so strong in the four cardinal points — Aries, Cancer, 
Libra and Capricorn — having direct relation to the brain 
of man, affects the mentality of the entire world when vi- 
brating any one of these four signs. Verily, I say, prog- 
ress is due to discontent, and Saturn is pre-eminenty the 
magnet of discontent. Out of much apparent evil good 
results. 



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The planet Saturn with its beautiful rings is more 
marvelous in effect upon humanity than any other planet. 
All great artists and musicians come strongly under his 
rule; hence poverty usually accompanies these gifts. 
Great wealth is among his favors under right conditions, 
but there is sure to come a fall. One who is unfavorably 
related to Saturn but favorably related to Jupiter will 
make and lose several fortunes during a lifetime. 

It requires no stretch of the imagination for the student 
of astrology to discover the relation existing between plan- 
etary movements and the minds of men, this being the 
underlying cause of the industrial warfare witnessed dur- 
ing 1922. The god of war, the planet Mars, was vibrating 
the sign of the thighs from February till September. The 
sign of the thighs, it will readily be perceived has direct 
bearing on all that has to do with transportation. The 
planet Mars was thus in square to the planet of labor — 
Uranus, which vibrated the sign of the feet, and here we 
see a double reference to travel. This planet Uranus is at 
the lowest point of the universal circle, and a planet locat- 
ed at this point has a direct bearing on everything below 
the surface of the earth. Strikes in the coal industry and 
fires in underground workings naturally follow. The pass- 
age of Uranus thru Pisces — water sign, also relates to fire 
and explosions on ships, more especially do these events 
appear when Mars aspects Uranus. 

In ancient times the candidate for a medical diploma 
was asked where he would look for the seat of a disease. 
The answer was the sixth house. The sixth house being 
the sign Virgo, having domain over the stomach, is ruled 
by the planet Mercury, ruling the mind, thus revealing 
the fact that many diseases are mental and can be remov- 
ed by mental treatment — as the disease is so is the cure. 
Score one for Christian Science. But Christian Science 
goes too far and proclaims all is mental. According to as- 
trological science the Sun represents the immortal and 
the Moon, the mortal. Therefore if there were no Moon 
there could be no existence and no mortality. 



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Astrology needs no apology. It is as old as man. It 
has stood its ground for centuries in the face of ridicule 
by those unable to see beneath the surface or compre- 
hend truths of nature lightly veiled from the sense of 
man. It has been stated the history of astrology can be 
traced back to about 3,000 B. C ; that in England Swift 
can fairly be credited with having given the death blow 
to Astrology in 1708. Strange it received its deathblow 
so long ago. Thousands can now attest it is very much 
alive. 

We find that astrology was the religion of the ancients, 
founded over a million years ago at least, and still the 
learned make so much of creeds that flourished from six 
hundred years B. C, quite a modern era. — Science and 
the Key of Life. 

The science of astrology is divided into seven branches, 
Esoteric, Natal, Medical, Horary, National or Mundane, 
Astrometerological, and the higher spiritual, that has to 
do with material expressions. It was at its zenith about 
two hundred thousand years ago; no doubt longer. It 
was first taught by the Manu, who had charge of the 
fourth root race. — Science and Key of Life. 

After having read the article on the Pyramids, read the 
following, and then draw your conclusions as to whether 
there are some things in connection with the stars that the 
astronomer does not see. After giving the astronomer due 
credit one is inclined to inquire wherein it adds to the 
well being of man. Does it show the times to sow and 
reap for best results? Does it show at the birth of a child 
the good and bad tendencies and how to train the individ- 
ual to save him from himself— that the energies there 
may be directed for the good of all and that the demand 
for asylums and poor houses may be lessened? Does it re- 
veal the quality of the brain — not quantity,— the phrenol- 
ogist will tell you that and it means little. Does it reveal 
if his pathway thru life will be filled with thorns or roses 



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and the best way for him.' Astrology reveals all this. 
Now read what the astronomer says: 

"Is it not a greater triumph of human power to have 
discovered that it would take three million one hundred 
thousand earths to equal the Sun in size and twenty -seven 
million suns to equal the star Betel Geuse, than to have 
erected a pyramid in Egypt?" 

While the planet of labor in the sign Pisces is under foot 
so to speak, Jupiter — capital, is greatly elevated and the 
fact that both Jupiter and Saturn are passing the balance 
shows that while capital is in a much stronger position 
than labor, the spirit produced by these two planets in 
the sign of justice will result in a new deal. The outcome 
of the turmoil will result in more consideration for the 
rights of the other fellow. The settlement of many diffi- 
culties will result from the benevolent spirit produced by 
Jupiter and Saturn together in this region. 

I would call the attention of our religious friends to 
the astrological reason for there being, during the last 
2,000 years, two great sects — Protestant and Cath- 
olic, in the religious world. To an astrologer the sign 
Pisces — the 12th sign, is clearly related to Protestantism 
— Christ and the twelve apostles; said twelve apostles be- 
fishermen -Pisces represented by the fishes — common 
sign — common people. At the opposite point of the zod- 
iac is the sign of the Virgin, symbolical of the Catholic 
faith. The Jewish Passover begins as the Sun passes 
from Pisces to the sacrifical lamb— Aries, the latter part 
of March. 

Uranus, the magnet of revolution, suicide, strange and 
sudden deaths and other untoward happenings has been 
making an opposition for several years of the sign Virgo 
which sign Saturn but recently left. Virgo rules Los 
Angeles. Many students will discern a connection be- 
tween this transit and recent events in those parts. The 



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transit of Uranus thru the 12th sign — corresponding to 
the mundane division of the same number, will be pro- 
ductive of like events for some years to come. 

The transit of Jupiter and Saturn of the sign Libra — 
sign of partnership — marriage, during 1 922 has made an 
interesting study for students of the stars. Saturn is 
the magnet of disintegration, while Jupiter is the planet 
of consolidation. Postponement of marriage for many 
has been preordained; likewise the consolidation of 
many large institutions and disintegration of others. 
Marriage and divorce appear to have run about neck 
and neck. But Jupiter leaves the celestial house of mar- 
riage the last of October, 1922 and leaves the planet of 
disintegration in full swing. Hence the divorce courts 
during 1923 will experience an era of prosperity. It is 
not a good time to be married, especially for those born 
before the 20th of the month of October, January, April, 
and July. If born at the time mentioned and you feel 
you must get married if you will select some other month 
you will dodge much of the affliction. Verily, it is time 
for j ustice and the presence of Jupiter in the scales has 
had a tendency to temper justice with mercy. It does 
not look so fair after Jupiter leaves the sign of the bal- 
ance, for juscice will be strict justice. The great teacher 
—Saturn, chaseneth those who can learn only by exper- 
ience. 

During the summer of 1877 Saturn was in Pisces, the 
sign ruling the feet, and meridian of the U. S. It has 
much to do with transportation and labor connected 
therewith. In the month of July occurred the great rail- 
road strike to resist the cut in wages. Violent scenes 
were enacted in the city of Baltimore, but the strike 
spread everywhere throughout the east and central west. 
Dangerous mobs gained control over the city of Pitts- 
burg and the scenes then enacted resembled a revolu- 
tion. Many lives were lost at that time in that city and 
property to the value of three million dollars was de- 
stroyed. St. Louis and Chicago also witnessed much 
violence. 



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The zodiacal circle shows the earth in the sign of the 
Twins during the month of December, the planet Uranus 
in the sign of the two fishes — two feet, with Mars on a 
direct line between the two, resulting in an apparent con- 
j unction of Mars and Uranus. And this is a time when 
an apparent conjunction is very powerful. This Uranus 
position — the negative part of the circle, means many 
things to a student of the subject. It appears to be the 
fashion after every large conflagration to declare it of in- 
cendiary origin. Nearly every fire of this nature can be 
traced to planetary action — usually known as spontaneous 
combustion. These magnetic fires are hard to extinguish. 
The great Chicago fire, the Baltimore fire and hundreds 



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of others could be cited. Trying to extjnguish such a fire 
with water has about the same effect as water on a highly 
charged electric wire. 

Ever notice that a serious fire in one city is immediate- 
ly followed by a string of fires clear across the country? 

At no distant day people will recognize planetary law 
and be prepared to meet intelligenty the unfavorable 
translation. Present year, 1922, shows several periods 
when planetary angularities are extreme in producing 
disasters in connection with explosions and fire. I would 
warn everyone connected with hazardous ventures to 
use great caution a few days before and after Christmas. 
It relates also to public buildings and affairs, and all 
modes of transportation both ou land and sea. Extraor- 
dinary watchful ness and caution CAN reduce the effects 
to a minimum. I firmly believe that every great fire or 
mining disaster we ever had could have been nullified by 
a recognition of this natural law instead of blindly charg- 
ing our misfortunes to inscrutable wisdom. Inscrutable 
wisdom is working overtime to teach us that we suffer 
from ourselves — by failure to recognize universal law — 
the forces of nature ever playing about us. 

This position of Uranus tends to make the months of 
September, December, March and June times of Hazard 
in mining operations. 

Those who have studied the problems of life through 
the universal law in the heavens know the secrets upon 
which the mystery of life and evolution are founded. We 
hope to unfold the divine truths, whereby man may be 
free, and no longer bound in a narrow groove of think- 
ing. It is fear that keeps the world from facing this 
mighty problem, but correct, knowledg and right thinking 
will unbind the chains that hold struggling humanity — 
Science and Key of Life. 



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"To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose 
under the Heaven : 

"A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time 
to pluck up that which is planted-"— Ecclesiastics. 

SDGMS OF THE ZODIAC 
Be&oinig on Hairwesft 

"The foolish notion that either the stars or the signs 
themselves have anything to do with planting and har- 
vesting was a cuckoo egg of the Chaldean astrologers. 
The touchstone that reveals the ineptitude of the astro- 
logical system of agriculture is the astronomical fact 
that star groups, or constellations, formerly associated 
with the twelve signs of the zodiac, have during the last 
2160 years become so far disconnected from the signs 
bearing the same name that now every sign is joined 
with the constellation that was before wedded to its 
next neighbor. 

To affirm that the sign in which the sun happens to 
be has anything to do with the case of barrenness or 
fruitfulness in connection with agriculture is absurd." 

The foregoing is the answer of a celebrated astrono- 
mer to a question as to the influence of zodiacal signs 
on planting and harvest. 

If you wanted your piano tuned you wouldn't go to a 
horse-shoer with the expectation that he had sufficient 
understanding of it to do a good job? 

Then why ask an astronomer when you want to know 
something about the signs of the zodiac and their rela- 
tion to man or agriculture? 

If you want to know the size, speed and distance of a 
planet, ask the astronomer, who is so enamored of his 
mathematics that he is continually parading his ignor- 
ance in regard to astrology. 

And don't let the astronomer kid you into believing 
that the signs of the zodiac now have, ever did have, or 
ever will have any connection with the constellations 
of the same name. 



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The fact that owing to the precession of the equinox 
the signs of the zodiac and constellations no longer cor- 
respond, has no effect on the nature of the signs or their 
effect on man or agriculture. About twenty-four thous- 
and years hence when the signs and constellations again 
correspond we hope the astronomer will have overcome 
his childish prejudice and be willing to acknowledge 
there is a side to the subject of the stars beyond his 
ken. Damnant quod non intelligunt. 

The signs of the zodiac are centered in the Sun and 
are solely the result of polarity and this polarity will 
produce the same signs ten thousand years hence as it 
did in ages past and does at present. 

Many people plant in the light and dark of the Moon 
and much of the time with indifferent results, simply 
due to a lack of full understanding of the matter. To 
get good results in planting and harvesting the phase of 
the Moon and sign of the zodiac must correspond — the 
new Moon in April when the moon is in the head 
for wheat and the dark of the Moon in April when the 
Moon is in the feet for radishes, turnips etc. — things 
growing beneath the surface. Potatoes can be planted 
when the Moon is increasing in light with good results if 
the Moon is just entering the sign Taurus — the exalta- 
tion of the Moon and house of Venus — an earthy sign, 
which sign rules Ireland, where the potato is a staple. 
But a few days later when the Moon enters the sign 
Gemini — an airy sign, the result would be lots of tops and 
no potatoes. For best results potatoes should be planted 
in April or May when the Moon is in its last quarter and 
in the sign of the ankles or feet, or at the first quarter 
as it enters the sign of the throat; better still if the signs 
of the ankles or feet could be ascending, but this occurs 
too early at that time of the year, so we do the next best 
and take sign of the throat, which, during the latter part 



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of April north of the equator is ascending about 6 a. m. 
There are three good potato signs — Aquarius, Pisces in 
the dark of the Moon, or Taurus, the new of the Moon. 
If the Moon is in the east of course it will be ascending. 
The better the soil the better still will be the harvest. 
There are times tho, when all this will not avail to pre- 
vent failure of root crops — witness the potato famine in 
Ireland in 1845 when Saturn was passing Aquarius and 
still later as both Saturn and Neptune occupied the sign 
of the feet — 46-49. Light sandy soil is the only hope for 
potatoes at such times even tho the sign and phase be 
ever so favorable. 

It is a well known fact to those who pay attenton to 
the signs of the zodiac and phases of the moon, that 
animals killed for food will at times shrivel in cooking 
and meat will quickly spoil after killing, no matter what 
the weather conditions may be; while at other times 
meat can be easily kept and will not shrivel in cooking. 
Why? Astrology holds the key to the secret, as it does 
to all of nature's finer forces. 

Numerous instances can be recalled of people being 
uearly cut in pieces who continue to live and thrive. 
Other instances can be cited of death shortly following a 
slight cold or scratch. When the ray that binds your 
soul to the great intelligence is severed by planetary ac- 
tion you pass out; until it is cut by such action you con- 
tinue, no matter what the state of your health may be. 
But it is not the mission of astrology to discover the ray 
that killeth, but rather, how to get the most out of life. 

It has often been demonstrated that a tuning fork will 
vibrate if held near a musical instrument when a certain 
note is struck. Man, when born into this world is at- 
tuned to the vibrations of the ambient. At any time in 
life thereafther that your particular note is vibrated you 
respond. If favorably attuned at birth, periods of pros- 
perity will accord therewith. 



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A Ye&ir ©IF Fire amidl Com© 

The horoscope for the year 1922 shows the planet 
Mars as ruler of the year, for the sign Scorpio having 
dominion over the city of Washington, D. C, is ruled 
by Mars and the sign Scorpio was rising at Washington 
at the beginning of the year Dec. 22, 1921, 4:08 a. m. 
This chart is doubly interesting from the fact that Mars 
had arrived at exactly the ascending degree — 18 degrees 
of Scorpio, at the time of the Washington theatre disas- 
ter, January 28th. The chart also reveals the fact that 
Mars also rules the fifth mundane house — the house of 
amusement. With the signs of fire so predominant I 
was surprised that fire did not also add to the horror of 
the Washington disaster. Students of the law need not 
be surprised if other theatre disasters show up before 
the year ends. 

Mars also ruled the house of amusement at the time 
of the Taylor murder. Any person ruled by Scorpio 
and connected with the amusement industry in the vi- 
cinity of Los Angeles at that time would naturally be 
drawn into that affair, no matter how innocent they 
might be — more especially if they happened to be born 
during the months of May or November and during the 
hours of 6 a. m. or 6 p. m. 

I believe many of the murders and other crimes occur- 
ring in the vicinity of Los Angeles during the past two 
years can be traced to the malignant Mars-Saturn influ- 
ence. Virgo is said to rule Los Angeles and the planet 
Saturn has been transiting that sign for more than two 
years, and the magnet producing all manner of sudden 
and unlooked for events is now making transit in oppo- 
sition to the sign ruling Los Angeles. The sign Pisces, 
be it remembered, has direct bearing on the mundane 
division of the same number — the 12th, which rules asy- 
lums, prisons and criminal affairs in general. 



I Pl&ini<etary Hows \ 

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"For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose, 

— King Solomon." 

Considerable effort has been expended in calculating 
these planetary hours to make them helpful. They have 
an influence only in the hours given; so if the matter in 
hand cannot be completed in that hour it should be left 
if possible until the next good hour. It must not be sup- 
posed planetary hours will overcome the unfavorable in- 
fluences that may be manifesting in some people's birth 
chart. They are good as far as they go and will prove 
of value to the majority who use them. If you endeavor 
to make a deal in a Jupiter hour with a person who is 
ruled by Jupiter and you are not, he will likely get the 
best of the deal. But you will not be kicked out as he 
will be in a jovial mood. 

January 

1. Hours of Jupiter— 9.24-10.24 a. m. Sun— 11.24- 
12.24 a.m., 6.24-7.24 pm. Venus —12.24-1.24, 7.24-8.24 pm. 

2. Sun— 8.24-9.24 a. m., 3 24-4.24 p. m. Venus— 9.24- 
10.24 a.m., 4.24-5.24 p. m. Jupiter, 1.24-2.24,8.24-9.24 pm 

3. Jupiter— 5-24-6.24 p. m. Sun— 12.24-1.24, 7.24-8.24 
p. m. Venus -1.24-2.24, 8.24-9.24 p. m. 

4. Jupiter— 7.27-8.27 a. m., 2.24-3.24 p. m. Sun— 
9.24-10.24 a. m., 4.24-5.24 p. m. Venus— 10.24-11.24 a. 
m., 5.24-6.24 p. m. 

5. Venus— 7.24-8.24 a. m., 2.24-3.24, 9.24-10.24 p. m. 
Jupiter— 11.24 am 12.24 p. m., 6.24-7.24 p. m. Sun— 1.24- 
2.24, 8.24-9.24 p. m. 

6. Jupiter— 8.24-9.24 a. m., 3.24-4.24 p. m. Sun— 
10.24-11.24 a. m., 2.24-3.24, 5.24-6.24 p. m. Venus— 6.24- 
7.24 p. m. 

7 Sun— 7.24-8.24 a. m., 2.24-3.24 a. m., 2.24-3.24 p. m. 



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9.24-10.24 p. m. Venus— 8.24-9.24 a. m., 3.24-4.24, 10.24- 
11.24 p. m. Jupiter— 12.24-1.24, 7.24-8.24 p. m. 

8. Jupiter— 4.25-5.25 p.m. Sun— 11.25 a. m., 12.25, 
6.25-7.25 pm. Venus— 12.25-1.25, 7.25-8.25 pm. 

9. Sun— 8.25-9.25 am, 3.25-4.25, 10.25-11.25 pm. 
Venus— 9.25-10.25 am. 4.25-5.25 pm. Jupiter— 1.25-2.25 
8.25-9.25 pm. 

10. Jupiter— 10.25-11.25 am, 5.25-6.25 pm. Sun— 12- 
25-1.25, 7.25-8.25 pm. Venus— 1.25-2.25 pm. 

11. Jupiter— Especially good; 7.25-8.25 am, 2.25-3.25 
9.25-10.25 pm. 

Sun— 9.25-10.25 am, 4.25-5.25, 11.25-12.25 pm. Venus 
10.25-11.25 am, 5.25-6.25 pm. 

12. Venus— 7.25-8.25 am, 2.25-3.25, 9.25-10.25 pm. 
Jupiter— 11.25 am 12.25, 6.25-7.25 pm. Sun— 1.25-2.25 
8.25-9-25 pm. 

13. Jupiter— 8.25-9.25 am, 3.25-4.25, 10.25-11.25 pm. 
Sun— 10.25-11.25 am, 5.25-6.25 pm. Venut— 11.25 am. 
12.25, 6.25-7.25 pm. 

14. Sun— 7.25-8.25 am, 2.25-3.25, 9.25-10.25 pm. Venus 
8.25-9.25 am, 3.25-4.25 10.25-11.25 pm. Jupiter— 12.25- 
1.25, 7.25-8.25 pm. 

15. Jupiter— 9.23-10.23 am, 4.23-5.23 pm. Sun -11.23 
am. 12.23, 6.23-7.23 p. m. Venus -12.23-1.23, 7.23-8.23 
pm. 

16. Sun— 8.23-9.23 am, 3.23-4.23, 10.23-11.23 pm. Ve- 
nus— 9.23-10.23 am, 4.23-5.23 pm. Jupiter— 1.23-2.23, 
8.23-9.23 pm. 

17. Jupiter— 10.23-11.23 am, 5.23-6.23 pm. Sun— 
12.23-1.23, 7.23-8.23 pm. Venus— 1.23-2.23, 8.23-9.23 pm. 

18. Jupiter— 2.23-3.23, 9.23-10.23 pm. Sun— 9.22- 
10.23 am, 4.23-5.23 pm. Venus— 10.23-11.23 am, 5.23- 
6.23 pm. 

19. Venus— 7.23-8.23 am, 2.23-3.23, 9.23-10.23 pm. 
Jupiter— 11.23 am, 12.23, 6.23-7.23 pm. Sun— 1_23-2_23 
8-23-9-23 pm. 

20. Jupiter— 8-23-9-23 am, 3.23-4.23, 10.23-11.23 p. 
m. Sun— 10.23-11.23 am, 5.23-6.23 pm. Venus— 11_23 
am. 12.23, 6_23-7_23 pm. 



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21. Sun— 8-23-9-23 am, 2.23-3-23, 9.23-10-23 pm. 
Venus— 8.23-9.23 am. 3_23-4_23, 10.23-11-23 pm. Jup- 
iter— 12.23-1-23, 7-23-8-23 pm. 

22. Jupiter— 4.23-5-23 pm. Sun -11.23 am, 12.23 p. 
m. 6.23-7.23 pm. Venus— 12.23-1.23, 7.23-8.23 pm. 

23. Sun— 8.19-9.19 am, 3-49-4.19 10.19-11.19 pm. 
Venus— 9.19-10.19 am, 4.19-5.19 pm. Jupier— 1.19 
2.19, 8.19-9.19 pm. 

24. Jupiter— 10-19-11-19 am, 5.19-6.19 pm. Sun— 
12.19-1.19, 7.19-8.19 pm. Venus— 1.19-2.19, 8.19-9.19 
pm. 

25. Jupiter— 7.19-8.19 am, 2.19-3-19, 9-19-10.19 pm. 
Sun— 9.19-10-19 am, 4.19-5.19 pm. Venus— 10.19-11.19 
am, 5.19-6.19 pm. 

26. Venus— 7-19-8-19 am, 2.19-3.19, 9.19-10.19 pm. 
Jupiter— 11.19 am 12.19, 6.19-7.19 pm. Sun— 1.19- 
2-19-8-19-9.19 pm. 

27. Jupiter— 8-20-9-20 am, 3-20-4.20, 10-20-11.20 p. 
m. Sun— 5.2CT-6.20 pm. Venus— 11:20 am 12.20, 6-20 
pm. 

28. Sun— 7-20-8.20 am, 2.20-3.20, 9.20-10.20 pm. 
Venus— 8.20-9.20, 10.20-11-20 pm. Jupiter— 12-20-1-20 
7.20-8.20 pm. 

29. Jupiter— 9.20-10.20 am, 4.20-5-20 pm. Sun— 
11-20 am-12_20, 6.20-7.20 pm. Venus— 12.20-1.20, 7.20- 
8.20 pm. 

30. Sun— 8-20-9-20 am, 3.20-4-20, 10-20-11-20 pm. 
Venus— 9-20-10-20 am, 4.20-5-20 pm. Jupiter— 1.20- 
2_20, 8-20-9-20 pm. 

31. Jupiter— 10-20-11.20 am, 5-20-6-20 pm. Sun— 
12.20-1.20, 7.20-8.20 pm. Veuus— 1.20-2.20, 8.20-9.20 
pm. 



Gen. Grant was born with Saturn rising in the sign 
Taurus — ruling the throat. He died with a disease of the 
throat. He was not a financier — couldn't be with Saturn 
thus posited. His financial ruin by dishonest partners 
occurred as Saturn made a transit of this sign Taurus. 
His early struggles and disappointments will all be found 
to coincide with an angular aspect of Saturn. 



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don't want to know — but I do know they were not re- 
sponsible for the terriffic slump in agriculture which be- 
gan as the depressing Saturn entered the sign Virgo — 
having a direct bearing on foodstuff — Virgo rules the 
stomach and bowels. 

The troubles of speculative exchanges are not over 
and will not be until Neptune leaves Leo. 

Following are extracts from a few letters from those 
who experimented with this method. 

"Your calling of the bull waves is remarkable. " — A. H. 

"You certainly called the turn this time." — K. 

"Your October forecast was remarkably correct." — W. 

"You certainly struck the sharp spurts." — J. W. D. 

"I congratulate you on your ability to foresee the trend 
of the market.— W. J. 

"Your August letter was great." — A. M. 

I have shown your letter to a number of grain men 
and they think it wonderful how you keep so close to this 
kind of a market. — J. W. D. 

Your letters are of the utmost value to grain men. — J. B. 

The diagram on page 7 shows Saturn in transit of the 
sign Aries — ruling England, also Germany besides other 
countries. During 1908 dire distress prevailed among 
the unemployed and an appeal was made to the govern- 
men for assistance by the women of south and east Lon- 
don, many thousands of whom, it was asserted, with 
their children were suffering from the inability of the 
men to obtain work. With one million men, women and 
children starving because of lack of employment, the sit- 
uation was appalling. A cycle of bad trade for four or 
five years, the absence of any real summer ruining the 
harvests and bringing the building trades to a standstill. 
Saturn is now opposite the sign ruling England which 
produces effects similar but not as severe as passing thru 
Aries. 



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The historian, with the majority of mankind, marvels 
but is unable to explain the reason for the Pyramids 
other than that they were simply intended as the bur- 
ial place of kings. Many authors find in the mechanical 
exactness of the great pyramid nothing but divine or- 
igin. Still others see a system for the teaching of as- 
tronomy. All agree that they stand with their faces to 
the four points of the compass and stand exactly on the 
30th parallel. 

The astronomer says: "The slow piling up of the vast 
structure of the Pyramids of Cheops would seem an im- 
mense undertaking to you, and if you are not too abused 
by the ruling tyranny to have any more thoughts than 
a brute animal, you might, as an Egyptian, take some 
pride in the achievement; but, after all, what inspira- 
tion could there be in a mere heap of stone, mechanic- 
ally piled together, with no artistic motive or suggestion? 
Its bigness was no token of genius. It could not give 
the slightest impression of mental mastery acquired 
over material forces, because the construction involved 
no new principle, but called simply for the employment 
of the most primitive mechanical powers in a manner 
hardly varying from the plain methods of nature her- 
self. The Great Pyramid is not a memorial to human 
genius, but of human slavery." 

The astronomer, he who studies merely the form of 
things, must now give way to the astrologer, he who 
studies the soul of astronomy. The following article from 
Science and Key of Life might enlighten our astronomer 
friends — if they wanted facts. 



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PYRAMIDS AND THEIR OBJECTS. ISIS, THE MOON. 

In the first place we recognize the fact that the chief 
Goddess of the ancient Egyptians was Isis, the Moon, 
and there was a time in the past age of the world when 
Isis, or the Moon, passed vertically over the city of 
Cairo and the Great Pyramids, and the whole building, 
and every one of the four sides was, at this time, cov- 
ered completely by the light of the Moon as she passed 
exactly over the apex of the Great Pyramid. This was 
the time when her sacred influence was shed on that fa- 
vored spot. It was then, chiefly for this reason, and to 
commemorate this important phenomena that this enor- 
mous mass of masonry was built up. It was raised at 
an angle of fifty-two degrees, which was meant to com- 
memorate the fact of fifty-two weeks in a year, as the 
moon was taken, from the first, as the great means of 
measuring time, and to her was appointed the second 
day of the week, Moonday or Monday, as the Moon 
governs things connected with that day, and especially 
with the first hour of that day. The first day was given 
to Osiris, the Sun, Sunday, as the Sun rules the first day 
and the first hour of that day. 

Now in order to find the time at which this important 
event took place, we have to consider that the obliquity 
of the ecliptic diminishes at the rate of one-half a sec- 
ond annually. Then we may take, for example, the 
twentieth century and find in the year 2000 it will be 
twenty-three degrees and twenty-six minutes. To this 
add five degrees and eighteen minutes, for the north lat- 
itude of the Moon at its maximum, and we have twen- 
ty-eight degrees and twenty-four minutes, which sub- 
tracted from thirty degrees gives one degree and sixteen 
minutes, or four thousand five hundred and sixty sec- 
onds. This would be passed over by the Moon in nine 
thousand one hundred and twenty years, at the rate of 



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one-half a second per annum. Then from nine thousand 
one hundred and twenty years subtract two thousand 
years, and we have seven thousand one hundred and 
twenty years remaining as the date of the building of 
the Great Pyramid, and this was two hundred years 
subsequent to the beginning of elective kings. It was 
built to serve, first as a memorial to the fact, great in 
the ancient religion, of the transit of their goddess over 
that spot; second, as a means of fixing a great national 
system of meteorology, and third, for the sepulchre of 
the great sovereigns. To all these objects it was dedi- 
cated. 

It was evident, then, that the various dimensions or 
measurements, respecting the solar cycle date, repeating 
the ecliptic cycle, etc., of the ancient Chaldeans and 
Egyptians, but these have been unknown to modern in- 
vestigators, owing to the introduction of the solar year, 
and its varied length enacted by the legislatures of mod- 
ern times. As the ancient cycles are natural and scien- 
tific, they differ from anything of the kind attempted by 
man upon the unnatural lines, though they are the same 
as many scriptural and prophetic periods, which obser- 
vation shows are purely astronomical. It is very easy, 
then, for some modern writers and investigators to mis- 
take scientific data for Biblical truths. We shall now 
go over the different measurements, showing them to be 
taken from astronomical observations at that time. 

MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE PYRA- 
MIDS WERE BUILT. 

In the Queen's chamber, or the Moon's chamber in 
the Great Pyramid will be found a deep marked niche. 
This niche is fifteen feet high, as this constitutes the 
Chaldean and ancient Hebrew solar cycle. There are 
also five stories which answer to the five divisions of the 



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solar cycle, that is, five intercalary periods at the end 
of each third year. The walls of the King's chamber 
— the Sun, are composed of stones in five horizontal 
courses, and above this King's chamber are five cham- 
bers of construction. Both represent the five divisions 
of the solar cycle. The coffer in the chamber has five 
solid external sides, one being the bottom. Then again, 
we take the entire length of the ante-chamber multi- 
plied by Pi, which is a proportion known to mathemati- 
cians: this supplies the exact number of days in the 
year, or you may say Pi is the proportion of the diam- 
eter of a circle to its circumference. 

Thirty-six is another important division in the Great 
Pyramid. The Grand Gallery is covered with thirty-six 
stones. These represent the thirty-six divisons of the 
ecliptic cycle, that is, twelve signs or months, each di- 
vided into three eighteens. These form the geometrical 
divisions of the circle three hundred and sixty, which is 
also a ruling period in scripture. In connection with the 
ecliptic cycle, that is, twelve signs or months, each di- 
vided into three eighteens, nine is an important num- 
ber, as the largest room in the King's chamber is cov- 
ered with nine blocks of granite, representing the nine 
cycles of eclipses, of six hundred and forty-eight years 
each. Thus we have the breadth of the King's chamber, 
three hundred and twenty-four inches, giving the full 
date-representing cycle, representing six hundred and 
forty-eight years. 

These measurements are a plain indication that the 
period in which the pyramid was built was that of the 
early Chaldean. The date repeating cycle of solar eclip- 
ses, six hundred and forty-eight years, made up of 
twelve times fifty-four, which is three solar eclipses, on 
or about the first day of each month of the year, that is, 
by the system of time observed by the ancients, a solar 



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eclipse occurred thrice at one date, but the period be- 
tween each was eighteen years. 

Thus, three times eighteen are fifty-four years, just 
spoken of, and as there are twelve months, called signs 
in the Zodiacal circle, the first eclipse in creation year 
passes through the year, and repeats its date after six 
hundred and forty-eight years. This is a very good sys- 
tem of measureing time by the Sun. It is a complete 
revolution of eclipses upon the Zodiacal circle, and at 
the same time a grand demonstration of its use. Thus, 
we see that the use of this six hundred and forty-eight, 
or nine, is but a natural and scientific measurement in 
the great pyramid, or wherever it may be found. We 
find this in the Grand Gallery, which is fifty-four feet 
long, and therefore has a length of six hundred and forty- 
eight inches; this is a double reference to the ecliptic 
cycle. 

THE PYRAMIDS, TWENTY YEARS IN BUILDING. THE 
INFLUENCE OF ISIS. ''THE MOON GOVERNS EXIST- 
ENCE." 

In order to show the connection of these measure- 
ments, we will take, for instance, the Great Gallery, 
which is covered with thirty-six stones, which represent 
the thirty-six divisions of the ecliptic cycle, formed by 
the twelve sections or months of the Zodiacal circle. 
We know that each one of these twelve sections con- 
tains thirty parts, or degrees, thus forming three hun- 
dred and sixty, which is the mathematical division of 
all circles used in geometry, astronomy and also in Bib- 
lical chronology. This Zodiacal circle was also portray- 
ed on the outside casing of the huge building, together 
with the chief constellations. You may judge from this 
that the builders of the Great Pyramids were well ac- 
quainted with the twelve signs of the Zodiac and other 



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astronomical observations known to modern times, and 
even more, as you will conclude from these di ta. 

We also gather that many err in fixing the time when 
the Great Pyramids were built, when Draco wrs situat- 
ed at the North Pole, though in reality it would be in 
the center of the slanting passage, in one thousand eight 
hundred and twenty-six to two thousand one hundred 
and seventy A. M., about one thousand nine hundred 
and sixty -nine. It took twenty years to build the same, 
This would give one thousand nine hundred and eighty- 
nine A. M., and was in the reign of Cheops who built 
the Great Pyramid, he being the second king of the 
Fourth Dynastjr, which began in one thousand nine 
hundred and forty A. M. It will be plainly seen, then, 
that the object of building such a lasting monument 
was to commemorate the transit of the Moon Isis, their 
goddess of worship, whom they held in reverence at that 
day. 

Some people now have — in the future a larger number 
will have, everything to live for and nothing to die for. 
It is the ultimate of man to live at least 150 years. 
Knowledge will enable him to do so. When he does it 
the planet will no longer be afflicted with vermin — wit- 
ness India with its teeming millions of religious fanatics 
who hold other millions of their kind in bondage, men- 
tally and physically. The allies should pay their debt to 
the U. S., but England should not be pressed, ac present. 
For the next two years she will be sorely troubled. She 
stands a bulwark between civilization and the fanatical 
hordes of India and Turkey who so recklessly court death. 

Ever notice the connection between the ninth sign — 
the fiery Sagittarius and religious fervor? Is it any 
explanation to you why religious wars and bigotry are so 
appalling in fierceness? Sagittarius rules Spain and is 
the celestial house of religion, hence the inquisition. 



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ASTROLOGY 
aurad thm Spwlt @ff ftlhi© Age 

BY ROLLO IRETON 

The recently expired nineteenth century has been looked 
at for criticism or for praise from a great diversity of 
standpoints. There is one standpoint from which it can 
hardly fail to impress the historian of the future. For 
better or for worse it has been the great age of revivals. 
The leaders of thought, who are invariably, in the end, 
the leaders of action also, have awakened to a realization 
of one fact which has had an enormous bearing on the his- 
tory of the age. In grasping more fully than any of their 
predecessors the many sidedness of life, they have recog- 
nized how often their fathers have failed of accomplish- 
ment though tacitly accepting what was uppermost for 
the moment, through looking upon whatever views had 
obtained predominance at the particular epoch at which 
they lived as those after which all creation had been grop- 
ing blindly and aimlessly until then, and as the criticism 
by which they were at liberty to judge — and where they 
thought fit, to condemn — the past. This attitude of self- 
satisfied pride, of which the eighteenth century was more 
particularly guilty, resulted frequently in the heavy loss 
to their own and subsequent generations. The valuable 
knowledge that one generation heedlessly cast away as be- 
ing out of date, merely because it did not chime with 
their own attitude of mind, was not readily recovered by 
descendants — perhaps was not recovered at all. A gener- 
ation which valued utility above all things would be blind 
to a sense of the beautiful in art or in nature, and beauti- 
ful things would be rejected or destroyed as evidence of 
imperfect civilization. An age in which reason was val- 
ued most highly would fail to realize the necessity of faith. 
When faith held sway on the other hand, reason would be 
cast to the winds and denounced as an evidence of intel- 
lectual pride and of revolt against God. The greatness of 
Shakespeare was not recognized by the contemporaries of 
Pope. The greatness of Pope is denied today. A century 



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and a half ago the beauties of Gothic architecture were 
unappreciated, and therefore unseen. It is doubtful if at 
the preseut time we value at their true worth the splen- 
did structures of Sir Christopher Wren. 

But at length we are beginning to feel, even if we fail 
to appreciate what our forefathers admired, that this 
may not prove so much to their want of intelligence as 
the difference from our standpoint. Where we cannot see 
beauty we no longer so confidently deny its existence. In 
that which diverges farthest from our own personal opin- 
ion we — most of us — are ready to admit an element of 
truth. 

At no time, and in no country, was the unsympathetic 
attitude towards the past, to which I have alluded, 
more glaringly in evidence than in eighteenth-century 
Frr.nce, and nowhere have its results proved more disas- 
trous. In their revolutionary zeal, the leaders of the day 
freely cast away the wheat with the tares. In attempt- 
ing to inaugurate a new age they imagined they could 
make a TABULA RASA of all past history ; and while be- 
lieving in the possibility of this course, they never 
drer.mpt of questioning its wisdom. Doubtless they did 
some good in clearing the ground ; that they also destroy- 
ed much that was of value no sane man doubts today. 
They did not realize the continuity of history. They 
thought that they could start the story of the world 
afresh from the "Year One of Liberty." But history is 
within the province of Nature, and the Latin proverb 
holds good: NATURA NON FACIT SALTUM. 

It was the errors of the eighteenth century that taught 
the nineteenth century its wisdom. Much that was cast 
aside as worthless in the last century was subsequently 
re-adopted, often in a modified form, by its successor. It 
may be stated as a general truth that every step in ad- 
vance gained by mankind is gained at the expense, or the 
sacrifice of something else. We win, it is to be hoped, 
more than we lose. That we always lose something in 
making fresh conquests there is ample evidence in the 
past history of mankind to show. 

1 1 has been the business of the present age to pick up 
a iiw of the precious things that earlier generations have 
dropped in the hurry of their onward march. We have 



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succeeded in reviving not a few of the ideas of earlier 
times. We have sougnt inspiration for our art in the 
genius of the past. We have re-adopted their principles 
of architecture. We have recalled to political existence 
ancient people. We have made a nation of geographical 
expression. In the religious world we have seen Christ- 
ianity awake from her slumbers to renewed life and act- 
ivity. We have revived the wisdom religion of the East 
in the form of theosophy. 

Thus in looking back over the pages of the past history 
of man, over the beliefs, thoughts and modes of lLe, 
which were realities to them, but which are no longer 
realities to us, a feeling comes over us that the ' 'spirit 
may yet revive; that what looks like death is perhaps 
but a deep trance, and that it only needs "the fated 
hand" for which the ages are expectant to "smite this 
sleeping world awake." 

But it is not enough to reanimate these faiths of our 
fathers into the mere semblance of life. It is not enough 
to carciature mediaevalism, or to adopt as a quaint conceit 
in the present an attitde of thought which sprang from 
the very inmost depths of the soul of the past. And so, 
in looking at such renewals of ancient forms, one is tempt- 
ed to ask oneself with doubt and misgiving, "Can the 
spirit re-awaken in the form or is this merely a clever 
trick whereby it is galvanized to life?" 

Time alone can determine this, but at least we can fair- 
ly claim that in attempting to reawaken to life one or 
more of the giants of the past — a belief which played no 
mean part in the story of the earlier days of the world — 
the belief in the direct influence of the apparent motions 
of the Sun, Moon and p ] anets upon life, character and 
actions of men, we are in accord with the spirit of the age. 

It matters little if astrology is ridiculed by science and 
the newspapers. The heresy of today may be the ortho- 
doxy of tomorrow; and if we would win our share of the 
plunder of the ages we must be up and doing while ortho- 
dox science lies asleep. 

But as a matter of fact whether they see it or not, the 
scientists are being slowly but surely borne along by that 
irresistible current which leads mankind on from point to 



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point of knowledge until they will be forced to face the 
question which Astrology claims to solve. 

There is one thing above all others, the truth of which 
the development of science has tended to establish, and 
which each fresh advance only goes to emphasize more 
strongly. This truth is the universality of the reign of 
law, unbroken and unvarying throughout all Nature. 

There is no room for caprice in the Universe so far as 
Science has been able to observe it; no room for caprice 
except it be in the actions of man. But for all Science 
knows to the contrary, the history of mankind upon this 
earth may be the result of a series of accidents. Science 
advances no theory which explains the rise and fall of na- 
tions, or the rise and fall of individual men. It may in- 
deed admit with the poet that — 

We, in some unknown power's employ, 

Move on a rigorous line; 
Can neither, when we will, enjoy, 

Nor when we will, resign. 

— but that is all. 

It is here then, that Astrology steps in, and extends 
this theory to the universality of the laws of Nature to 
the domain of man. Born into a world where natural law 
holds universal sway, it shows that man, in entering this 
world, must subject himself to this law, and cannot hold 
himself apart, an isolated single instance to disprove the 
harmonious ordering of the universe. 

He must needs, sooner or later, admit himself no excep- 
tion, but only another and more marvelous instance still 
of that law of universal sympathy whereby 

The whole world round in every way 
Bound by gold chains about the leet of God. 

The field which Astrology occupies immediately in front 
in the exact line of the 'orward march of Science. What 
will Science do when it reaches this point, and has to 
make the choice? Will it turn aside in devious by-paths 
and so turning aside stultify itself for all future time? 
Will it say "Astrology blocks the way," and fear to fol- 
low in the footsteps of Kepler and Galileo? Or will it, 
after a frantic protest from the camp of the orthodox, and 



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much dallying and delay, look facts in the face, however 
much they may conflict with preconceived theories, and 
march gallantly forward? 

This is what frequently happened in the past. Doubt- 
less it will happen again. Meanwhile we must educate 
our teachers. 

Science does not realize the time of day. It is on the 
brink of the discovery, or rather the recognition, of facts 
that will wonderfully modify its present attitude, and 
which will, in changing that attitude, make it eventual- 
ly grander in scope than it has ever been heretofore — 
which will open its eyes to realms of imagination, to 
realms of thought hitherto regarded as totally outside 
its purview. 

Many scientists would doubtless be willing enough to 
admit the probability of the existence of a natural law 
under which the destinies of mankind are played out. 
What they fail to recognize is, that in the science of 
Astrology the rudiments of this natural law, which sci- 
ence is yet to seek, have been already found out for us 
by the wise men of old. 

If we blame the scientists it is because they obstinate- 
ly shut their eyes to facts which are open to their obser- 
vation — facts, which, being accessible to the careful stu- 
dent, should at least, if they are untrue, be sifted and 
disproved. 

They have some excuse for not having done so. As- 
trology when it reaches the eyes of the public, does not 
reach them, generally speaking, in a form which com- 
mends it to the notice of serious or scientific men. 

"I know not," says the poet — 
I know not if they erred 

Who thought to see 

The tale of all the times to be 
Star charactered; 

I know not, neither care 

If fools or knaves they were. 

It is greatly to be feared that there has been among 
the fellowship who have professed a study of the stars 
of the fates of men examples of one and the other; and, 
indeed, wherever prediction of the future comes in there 



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are always many dying to be deceived, and as ever, the 
demand for deception creates the supply. 

The school of poo-poo scarcely merits consideration. 
It has had its votaries in all ages and times, and today 
they are sufficiently numerous. Under whatever guise 
or in whatever form they appear, they never fail to make 
themselves contemptible. It is better that they should 
not laugh as they generally have done hitherto — at some 
foolish figment of their own brain, which they take to be 
that ancient science. 



The opening which man now finds 
for himself is the best way for him. 
Do not make the mistake of want- 
ing all people to be saved in our 
way, in our own particular line. 
This cannot be, and because an- 
other person's way differs from our 
own we should not look down upon 
it, rather let us consider it worthy 
our respect and study. —Science and 
Key of Life. 



1 The question is often asked how the stars can af- 1 
i feet people and their affairs — rule their destiny? 1 

{What is the medium of communication? That 1 
wonderful unseen power that holds the world in ] 



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place — magnetism, is the answer. The earth was 1 
once a part of the Sun and man being a product of T 
the earth is governed by the same force that gov- 1 
erns the earth — the Sun. Man and the Sun are j 
closely related, man and the earth being but a 4 

{ spark from the parent source. When the Sun is 
aspected by the planets, causing high or low cur- 
{rents of electricity, man and all created things quick- 
ly respond. Harmonious currents produce like ef- 
{fects; so also do cross currents. 
WHEN MARRIAGE MAY BE EXPECTED— In the 
horoscope of a woman if the Sun is in good aspect 
{to Jupiter, Mars, Saturn or Uranus, marriage comes 
at one of the following periods: 18, 22, 24 or 26. If 
i the Sun be exactly 120 degrees from Jupiter the 
f woman marries at the age of 24 unless a bad aspect 

(to the Sun occurs at the same time, which would 
cause disappointment and prevent marriage. 
4 WHEN GOOD FORTUNE WILL COME— If at birth 

the Sun is in good aspect to Jupiter the good for- 
^ tune is promised every two years, but at the ages 
i of 12, 24, 30, 60 and 72 greater prosperity will ap- 
f pear. If both the Sun and Moon are found in 
I good aspect to Jupiter at birth and not afflicted by 
[ an evil aspect, then good fortune is ever attendant 
4 LUCKY DAYS— When the Moon or Sun pass the 

place held by Jupiter at birth is a lucky day unless 
I an unfavorable transit is in operation at that time 
i when both good and bad conditions will appear on 
I same day. 

1 If the Moon is in good aspect with the Sun at 

f birth every time the Sun forms a good aspect to 

1 that place is a lucky day, for business especially. 

If Uranus afflicts the Sun and either occupy the 

| seventh house, that person will be happier single. 

! It is possible for Mars, Venus and the seventh 

7 house and its ruler to cause a plethora of loves. 



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